This consisted of a large
black circular form planted in the ground on a fishnet foot, with a human face on one side and a multicoloured tail on the other.
Not exact matches
An unframed, multi-paneled frieze hangs below the ceiling line like an unspooled film revealing an inventory of
circular geometries; painted in hues from pastel to vibrant, their
forms chart a rhythm across planes of
black squares, themselves in motion.
Though new to Riley's lexicon, these shapes can be traced to the artist's Deny paintings of 1966, which feature gridded
circular forms created during a period when Riley began to experiment with colour — and incorporated grey tones into her compositions as a chromatic intermediary between
black and white.
The
circular red ribs that make up the urn - like
form of Cherubini's «Morning Star» reflect the looping vase handles and linear flowers in Nichols's still lifes; the figure / field spatial disparity in Bischof's «Omi im Bregenzer Wald» is also found in Trudy Benson's «Yes, and...» from 2014 (evidently a play on Yes, but..., Dore Ashton's classic study of Philip Guston's late work, published in 1976), where beads of yellow paint resembling wads of chewed - up chewing gum seem to drift above a receding gray and green field, which is bordered in peach - and - gray shards intersecting with
black - and - white stripes.
In one gallery, flat
black paintings of
circular or triangular or rectangular
forms are contained by incongruous wood edges that define deep shadows around the picture.
In «Into the Groove» (2010), which was painted on a slightly off, rectangular piece of wood, with a small
circular indentation punched into it and two strips of corrugated cardboard adhered to its surface, Clippinger echoes the scalloped edge of one cardboard strip by painting a similarly scalloped
form in
black along the painting's left edge.
These vibrant marks, often
circular in individual
form and wavering in overall view, pop off their
black background creating an essence of oscillation.
The arrangement of
circular forms connected by thin strands appears in other areas of physics — related to unimaginably huge structures such as galactic jets, which emanate from
black holes at the centres of many galaxies.
These works continued to employ the striped motif of the
Black Paintings, but broadened it to include brighter hard - edged colours, and more intricate
circular forms, particularly in the Irregular Polygon (1965 - 1967) and Protractor (1967 - 1971) series.
The large,
circular form represents the wheel of the wheelchair and the
black tennis ball hangs suspended in space, the tennis racquet poised to smash the ball across the net.
Instead of
forming normal single - stemmed trees, most post-fire
black spruces in the Rivière Boniface area are growing as stunted individuals in the
form of multi-stemmed clones (Bégin & Filion 1999; Laberge et al. 2001), spreading in all directions when soil topography is uniform, thus
forming circular, elliptic or elongated features.
A pair of chrome table lamps, produced circa 1970s in the Space Age style, each with five globe
form shades radiating from a nucleus, raised by a tapered shaft on a
circular black pa...